Lysis protein S (IPR007054)

Short name:
Lysis_S

Family relationships

None.

Description

This entry contains a family of small hydrophobic holin proteins with one or more transmembrane domains. Members of this family fall into the holin superfamily II, and Phage 21 S holin is the prototype for this superfamily. It has two transmembrane segments with both the N- and C-termini on the cytoplasmic side of the inner membrane in E. coli. Holins are a diverse family of proteins that cause bacterial membrane lysis during late-protein synthesis. It is thought that the temporal precision of holin-mediated lysis may occur through the build up of a holin oligomer which causes the lysis [PMID: 8467992, PMID: 17827300].